140 Twitter Tips for Educators: Get Connected, Grow Your Professional Learning Network, and Reinvigorate Your Career

140 Twitter Tips for Educators: Get Connected, Grow Your Professional Learning Network, and Reinvigorate Your Career

Maybe you're a teacher looking for an engaging lesson idea. Or maybe, you're a school principal in search of ideas to improve your school culture. Or perhaps you're a superintendent wanting to inform stakeholders of district happenings. Whatever questions you have about education or about how you can be even better at your job, you'll find ideas, resources, and a vibrant network of professionals ready to help you on Twitter. In 140 Twitter Tips for Educators, #Satchat hosts and founders of Evolving Educators, Brad Currie, Billy Krakower, and Scott Rocco offer step-by-step instructions to help you master the basics of Twitter, build an online following, and become a Twitter rock star. From this easy-to-follow guide, you'll learn: How and why to create a personal and classroom or school profile. Whom to follow and how to find the resources you need. How to get noticed on Twitter (And help others!) with your Tweets. What a Twitter chat is and how to join one. How hashtags work - and why you need one for your classroom and/or school. How other educators are using Twitter to learn and teach. And much more! Get connected today and discover how Twitter can help you grow your Professional Learning Network and reinvigorate your career! "Twitter is a tool that educators can use to connect globally and build their PLNs (Personal/Professional Learning Networks). In this book, Brad, Billy, and Scott give 140 practical tips that educators can use to leverage the power of social media to help their pedagogy. Readers will glean chunks of wisdom from the Twitter experts who brought us #Satchat and inspired thousands of educators worldwide." Sarah Thomas @sarahdateechur. Regional Technology Coordinator in Prince George's County, Maryland and Digital Innovation in Learning Award Winner."140 Twitter Tips for Educators is the perfect PD for those who don't get Twitter in education. You'll unleash learning and get excited about teaching again, 140 tips at a time. #awesome" --Vicki Davis (@coolcatteacher), Mashable "Rockstar" Teacher on Twitter, author: The Cool Cat Teacher Blog and Reinventing Writing, host: Every Classroom Matters. "Being "unconnected" is no longer choice in the field of education. 140 Twitter Tips for Educators, calms your every fear about embracing Twitter, and provides you with the knowledge to advance your students lives, as well as your career, to heights you never dreamed of!" Glenn Robbins (@glennr1809) 2016 NASSP Digital Principal of the Year. Middle School Principal at Northfield Community School in Northfield, NJ. "Currie, Krakower and Rocco provide something for everyone with their great new book 140 Twitter Tips for Educators. From the novice twitter user, to the seasoned social media professional, one can find rich tidbits on how to get the most out of your personalized/professional learning network. Their collectively leadership in the twittersphere not only positively influences the lives of individual educators, but strengthens the American education system as a whole." Winston Sakurai @winstonsakurai. 2016 NASSP Digital Principal of the Year. Upper School Principal for the Hanalani Schools in Mililani, Hawaii. "Technology in education isn't going away anytime soon, but it is constantly changing. 140 Things Educators Can Do With Twitter illustrates how all educators, whether they are connected or not, can use Twitter to help them grow professionally and improve their instructional practices. This book is filled with easy to follow strategies to use Twitter: from branding and marketing your school and classroom to becoming an advocate for the education field using Twitter, this book has it all. As a fellow connected educator, I know I learned additional ways to use Twitter to help my staff and myself grow. I would encourage anyone who is looking to get better as an educator to read this book." Bobby Dodd @bobby_dodd. 2016 NASSP Digital Principal of the Year. Principal at Gahanna Lincoln High School in Gahanna, Ohio. "Twitter is a tool that educators can use to connect globally and build their PLNs (Personal/Professional Learning Networks). In this book, Brad, Billy, and Scott give 140 practical tips that educators can use to leverage the power of social media to help their pedagogy. Readers will glean chunks of wisdom from the Twitter experts who brought us #Satchat and inspired thousands of educators worldwide." Sarah Thomas @sarahdateechur. Regional Technology Coordinator in Prince George's County, Maryland and Digital Innovation in Learning Award Winner. "140 Twitter Tips for Educators is the perfect PD for those who don't get Twitter in education. You'll unleash learning and get excited about teaching again, 140 tips at a time. #awesome" --Vicki Davis (@coolcatteacher), Mashable "Rockstar" Teacher on Twitter, author: The Cool Cat Teacher Blog and Reinventing Writing, host: Every Classroom Matters. Brad Currie is the Dean of Students and Supervisor of Instruction for the Chester School D